Petition Swearing on TV before 9pm - Introduce new standards

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Unacceptable swearing on TV before the 9pm watershed, is being used by the BBC and other broadcasters on such programmes like "Miranda".

The goverment should set our specific standards of acceptable swearing on TV that they have to adhere with. Currently the broadcasters do not have any guidence in this area and are making their own rules up.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

15 signatures

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Date closed 12 April 2013
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